February 1, 1960 Agricultural and Technical College students walked in to a F. W. Woolworth company store in Greensboro in North Carolina to purchase some school supplies. Then they went to the lunch counter and asked to be serve. These four freshmen were black and this lunch counter was segregated. When they were force to leave as the store closed and they still had not been served. (sit-ins pg1).

The main purpose is to use non-violence demonstration to attract sympathy throughout the nation. According to Martin Luther King's doctrine, nonviolent protesting is the only way to get Northerners, who held more political power and less racism but did not understand the situation in South, to help desegregation. There are more strategies involved in a sit-in. Protesters would dress up and act politely to show they were high-level citizens, occupied every other stool so potential white sympathizers could join in, and not pay fine nor bail to show protest against injustice. Sit-in movement allowed people without skills able to participate the Civil Right Movement, trained more Civil Right leaders, and started more kinds of nonviolence large-scaled demonstrations. The idea for the sit-in was McNeil’s. A freshman at A&T, he discussed the incident with his friends and roommates, and they all believed that it was time to expedite the process.

On February 1, 1960, Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and Franklin McCain, four students from North Carolina A &T, went to Woolworth’s lunch counter which was Whites only. They were refused to be served, but they could sit in the counter. Soon, the sit-in movement started. After the first day, more and more people attended this movement. Eventually, over 90 percent of the students at North Carolina A&T took part in sit-ins movement. The action was “like a fever,” commented one protester. Within a week lunch counter sit-in movement were occurring in fifteen cities in five southern...

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